Tavilas Quotes & Sayings

Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you are still likely to go far and, at the very least, will never experience poverty as an adult. A good education compounded by your parents' 'cultural capital', financial support and networks will always see you through. If you are a bright child born into a working-class family, you do not have any of these things. The odds are that you will not be better off than your parents. — Owen Jones

What of men? I can't think of anything more banal. I have no doubt - no doubt whatsoever - that once it has obtained the means to do so, the species will wipe itself off the face of the earth. There is no mystery to it; it is our nature. Oh, one might delve into the particulars, but really, what can we say about the species that invented murder? What can we say? — Rick Yancey

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it. — Joey Harrington

There is only one essence, always the same. As yet, man has found no other means to elevate himself - none but the routing of matter and the submission of the individual to an end which transcends the individual, even though that end be chimerical. When the heart believes and loves, nothing chimerical exists; nothing exists but — Nikos Kazantzakis

Death kills you once; worry kills you every day. — Marty Rubin

I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening. — Mark Boal

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. — Richard Perle

The Best of you, are those who are the Best to their families. — Anonymous

God has from the beginning, placed in us all the necessary gifts, abilities and talents to have success — Sunday Adelaja

No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough. — Sarah Dunant

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries. — Dalai Lama